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Bill Kristol

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How we determined this rating:

  • Editorial Review: Apr 2025
  • AllSides has low or initial confidence in this bias rating.

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Contents
  1. About Bill Kristol's Bias Rating
  2. What a "Lean Left" Rating Means
  3. Bias Reviews
  4. Confidence Level

About Bill Kristol's Bias Rating

Bill Kristol is a influencer source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Lean Left.

Bill Kristol is an Editor at Large for The Bulwark and the Director of Defending Democracy Together. He is a frequent Trump critic. 

What a "Lean Left" Rating Means

Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Left display media bias in ways that moderately align with liberal, progressive, or left-wing thought and/or policy agendas. A Lean Left bias is a moderately liberal rating on the political spectrum.

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Bias Reviews

We use multiple methods to analyze sources. Learn how we rate media bias.

Bill Kristol Rated Lean Left in April 2025 Small Group Editorial Review

A group of three AllSides reviewers on the left, center, and right rated Bill Kristol Lean Left in an April 2025 Small Group Editorial Review. Reviewers noted his anti-Trump activism and his perception of several actions by Donald Trump as authoritarian. 

He also said, "Pete Hegseth is incompetent, immature, irresponsible, and utterly unqualified to serve as the U.S. secretary of defense."

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Confidence Level

Confidence is determined by how many reviews have been applied and consistency of data.

As of June 2026, AllSides has low or initial confidence in our Lean Left rating for Bill Kristol. If we perform more bias reviews and gather consistent data, this confidence level will increase.